Jill Soloway Wins Emmy, Wants to "Topple the Patriarchy"

Transparent creator Jill Soloway has just set a new benchmark for ending acceptance speeches.

Accepting the Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series award for the second year in a row, Soloway took the opportunity to issue a challenge to Hollywood.

Calling the experience of directing "a privilege," Soloway said she realized that by representing minority groups in television, she could make an actual difference: "When you take people of color, women, trans people, queer people, as the subjects of stories, you change the world, we found out. We found out."

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Soloway continued by admitting: "I've always wanted to be part of a movement...This TV show allows me to take my dreams about unlikeable Jewish people, queer folk, trans folk, and make them the heroes."

"Thank you to the trans community for your lived lives," she said, calling for an end to violence against transgender women. And then, with a flourish, she concluded, "Topple the patriarchy!"